What would have happened if Vernon and Petunia had raised Harry to be as mean and nasty as Dudley? What if Harry had been as much of a porker as his cousin? By abusing him, indirectly, the Dursleys saved his butt.

By obsessively refusing to admit that magic is real, they made Harry oblivious of his true nature and thus never tried to suppress it. Book 7 and especially Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them show the consequences of young wizards knowingly suppressing their power. It ain't pretty.

Shadow Archetype: To the Barebones of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Both hate magic with a passion, but while the Dursleys were Obsessively Normal and denied magic exists, the Barebones were Cassandra Truth tellers working to expose magic to the world. Their hatred both ruined their adopted son/nephew's childhood. But since Credence was taught to hate his magic he developed a powerful Obscurus while Harry never knew what was wrong with him so had no idea what to suppress.

Abusive Parents: Vernon Dursley isn't actually Harry's father, but is rather cruel towards him as his guardian. He also was a bad father to Dudley because of the constant spoiling and teaching his son to bully his cousin. Dumbledore even says that the best thing they Vernon had ever done for Harry was to make sure he didn't grow up to become a Spoiled Brat like Dudley.

Achievements in Ignorance: Because he doesn't know how dangerous Voldemort really is, he's able to say his name without fear, something even most wizards can't do.

Adaptation Dye-Job: His hair changes from being dark in the books to a greyish ginger in the movies (and eventually white as snow in the final film).

Angrish: All the time. The most memorable quotations are "He made a sound like a mouse being trodden on" and "Mimble wimble".

Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Oh so very averted. Unlike his son who came to appreciate Harry for saving his life, and his wife whose feelings are more complicated in origin, Vernon just flat-out doesn't like his nephew, and never did. Exemplified and Played for Laughs in the last book where Vernon moves to offer Harry a handshake but can't bring himself to stick the landing on even that gesture, and ends up just awkwardly swinging his closed fist back and forth.

Nevermind magic, so much as mention anything remotely unnatural, even in a dream and he'll snap.

British Stuffiness: Somewhat. He's stuffy all right, but he's much more boorish than the stereotype would suggest.

The Bully: He enjoys shouting to his employees and keeping Harry under his thumb. He approves and even encourages his son to do the same.

Bullying a Dragon: There's his mistreatment of Harry, of course (which stems from before he knew Harry wasn't allowed to magically retaliate), but there's also the matter of Hagrid arriving to collect Harry. Even though Vernon has witnessed Hagrid demonstrate his Super Strength by bending a shotgun, and even after seeing Hagrid get mad, he proceeds to make the half-giant angrier until he ends up doing the one thing that makes Hagrid truly apoplectic with rage (i.e. insulting Albus Dumbledore), instead of keeping his mouth shut. Not to mention that Hagrid is at least twice his size - and Vernon himself is no small fellow.

Averted in the later books, when Vernon mostly keeps his temper in check when confronted by Arthur Weasley, Alastor Moody and Albus Dumbledore. His experience with Hagrid seems to have taught him the value of not shooting your mouth off.

Decoy Protagonist: He's the protagonist of the first chapter before his nephew is introduced.

Demoted to Extra: In the films as the series goes on after Prisoner of Azkaban. His scenes in Goblet of Fire and Half Blood Prince are outright skipped, and he makes very small appearances in Order of the Phoenix and Deathly Hallows Part 1.

Even Evil Has Loved Ones: While he's not evil, he's still an unpleasant man. He's Happily Married to his Petunia and spoils his son rotten. In Prisoner of Azkaban, he becomes outraged with Harry when he causes his sister Marge to inflate.

Fantasy-Forbidding Father: An uncle variant. He very specifically tried to crush the potential for magic out of Harry with all sorts of means.

Fat Bastard: His fatness is only second to his unpleasant personality.

Happily Married: For all his other flaws, he and Petunia really love each other.

Harmless Villain: After Harry goes to Hogwarts, Vernon spends the rest of the series being more of an annoyance than anything, especially after Harry informs him about his godfather who happens to be a wanted criminal. When the Order of the Phoenix members - including the one who previously demolished half of his living room - warn him about mistreating Harry, Vernon just ignores Harry altogether.

Hate Sink: Until the real story gets underway, the readers only have him to hate. He also lacks the occasionally sympathetic moments that Petunia and Dudley have. While not a full-on evil person, he nonetheless has very few redeeming qualities even by the standards of Harry Potter antagonists.

Yes, Vernon, pissing off the very large and very angry half-giant is a good idea... especially in the film, where Vernon proceeds to antagonize Hagrid moments after the latter physically bent shotgun metal in front of him.

As is trying to talk back to Alastor Moody. Even if you don't know of Moody's background and history, one look alone should indicate this is not someone you want to pick a fight with.

Jerk Ass Has A Point: In Chamber of Secrets, while it doesn't remotely excuse him going out of his way to barricade Harry in his room and stop him from going back to Hogwarts, Vernon, from a purely technical standpoint, is in the right to be pissed off at Harry withholding from him that he's not allowed to use magic outside of school since he basically kept the Dursleys in a constant state of fear since he returned, even if Harry had a very, very good reason for doing so. And even before that, since he never discovers Dobby's treachery in spoiling Petunia's cake and framing Harry for it, as far as he's concerned Harry is guilty as charged in trying to cause even more grief for them.

Lack of Empathy: When it comes to Harry. In Order of the Phoenix, he is fully prepared to throw Harry out of his house, despite full knowledge that doing so would put his life in grave danger, and when Harry is put on trial for underage magic, Vernon comes right out and says he hopes Harry gets the death penalty.

Say what you will about his parenting, but he will not hesitate to act if he thinks Dudley is in danger. At one point he shows that he is perfectly willing to throw himself between Dudley and Hagrid without a thought for his own safety.

When Dementors coming for Harry threaten Dudley in the process, he is this close to throwing Harry out of the house entirely.

Paper Tiger: Vernon makes a big show of threatening and bullying people. Whenever he's confronted by someone who won't be intimidated like Hagrid, the Order of the Phoenix members, or Dumbledore, he's immediately cowed into silence.

Parental Obliviousness: Subverted. Unlike Petunia who is a straight case, Vernon is mostly aware of Dudley's flaws, but doesn't consider them as such.

"Aunt Petunia always insisted that Dudley was a very gifted boy whose teachers didnt understand him, while Uncle Vernon maintained that he didnt want some swotty little nancy boy for a son anyway'."

Subverted in the first book. He allows Harry to go on a trip to the zoo along with Dudley... but this is because his babysitter injured her leg.

The only genuine example is that he does care for Petunia and Dudley. The one time Vernon goes as far as trying to kick Harry out of his home is when he discovers that Voldemort has returned, and Vernon tells Harry to get out on the grounds that he isn't putting his wife and son in danger. Not that it excuses trying to throw a 15 year-old boy out on the street, but Vernon puts Petunia and Dudley first.

After finding out that his sister-in-law is a witch, he tells Petunia he doesn't hold it against her.

He seems to genuinely like Kingsley Shacklebolt, who is the only wizard he's ever expressed genuine praise for. Granted it's not clear whether this is due to genuine respect or just because he's good at passing as a muggle.

The backstory mentions that Vernon used to try to bond with James Potter, but since James was a wizard and Vernon could only really talk about cars, they had little to talk about.

Politically Incorrect Villain: He hates wizards and views them as abnormal freaks. Contrast that to most of the villains in the series, who view Muggles like him as subhuman. He also has many unflattering things to say about people below his own socio-economic standing, believes in corporal punishment and capital punishment, going as far as to say that the best way to deal with murderers like Sirius Black is hanging, is glad that he doesn't have a "swotty little Nancy boy" for a son, which hints at sexist/homophobic and anti-intellectual beliefs, and he reads the notoriously reactionary Daily Mail. However, his approval of Kingsley Shacklebolt suggests that despite his many, many prejudicial beliefs, he isn't overtly racist.

Starter Villain: He's the main villain for the first few chapters in the series...but he's far and away from being the Big Bad.

Stealth Pun: Vernon manages a company that makes drills. His work is "boring".

Take That!: At one point Vernon is shown to read The Daily Mail. J.K. Rowling has admitted that she used Vernon as a proxy to take potshots at the UK-based tabloid given what sort of person Vernon is, which has published unflattering articles about her.

Vernon: And do I look like the kind of man who can be intimidated? Mad-Eye: Well... <pushes back his bowler hat to stare at Vernon with his creepy Mad Eye, causing Vernon to leap back in shock and crash into a luggage trolley> Yes, I'd have to say you do, Dursley.

Ungrateful Bastard: Not even Harry saving Dudley from the Dementors makes Vernon treat him any better.

Villain Opening Scene: It's debatable whether Vernon really counts a "villain", but he's a jerk at least and the first book starts off from his POV.

"My mother and father were so proud the day she got her letter. 'We have a witch in the family. Isn't it wonderful?' I was the only one to see her for what she was... a freak!"

Harry's aunt. As a kid, she was involved in The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry with Lily, Harry's mother. After Lily turned out to be a witch, Petunia got jealous and came to hate magic.

As an adult, Petunia is a Stepford Smiler who favors her own son Dudley over Harry. She is not as overtly nasty to Harry as her husband is, but she's still mean to him in a catty sort of way. She also tends to be humorously overemotional.

Abusive Parents: Much like Vernon, she treats Harry very poorly as his caretaker. As Dumbledore and Word of God point out, she's a bad parent to Dudley as well, their hopeless spoiling and enabling of his actions leading him to grow up with little moral compass. It takes Harry's Embarrassing Rescue and a Dementor attack to teach Dudley the humility and compassion that his mother never taught him.

"You didn't just lose a mother in Godric's Hollow, you know. I lost a sister."

Averted in the book, where she briefly stops as if to say something but Can't Spit It Out because years of denial have hardened her. She was however going to say something similar as per Word of God.

Somewhat more tragically, this is a good part of the reason she's so nasty to Harry; she was still in the middle of something of a feud with Lily when Lily was killed, and thus Harry is a walking reminder of what she lost and the fact that she never had the chance to reconcile with her sister.

Also more tragically: when James and Lily were murdered, Petunia was the one to make the funeral arrangements for them.

It's probably made even worse by Cursed Child; she kept Harry's baby blanket, likely because her sister made it...and it's something she has to remember Lily by that she doesn't have to hate.

Chekhov's Gun: In Order of the Phoenix, she remembers hearing about dementors because she overheard her sister being told about it from "that awful boy", with the implication being that said boy was James. In Deathly Hallows, that's revisited, as Harry peers into Snape's memory and watches Lily and Petunia hear about the dementors... from Snape, not James as previously believed.

Demoted to Extra: In the films as the series goes on after Prisoner of Azkaban. Her scenes in Goblet of Fire and Half Blood Prince are outright skipped, and he makes very small appearances in Order of the Phoenix and Deathly Hallows Part 1. (However, she does have several scenes in Part 2 during the flashback sequence)

Doting Parent: She is arguably worse than her husband in this regard. It doesn't help that she seems to still see her Dinky-Duddydums as a toddler. Indeed, while she may think she was a doting parent, she merely served as his enabler in all his bullying.

Freudian Excuse: Her sister was born magical and she wasn't, leading her to believe that their parents favored Lily over her. She wrote to Dumbledore asking to be accepted into Hogwarts, but was denied for obvious reasons.

Ignored Epiphany: When Harry and the Dursleys part for the last time, there's a moment when Petunia looks like she wants to say something kind to Harry, but ultimately she can't do it and just continues on out the door. In a Deleted Scene from the movie version, she manages to say it.

I Just Want to Be Special: As a child. A good case can be made that she still wants to be special even as an adult and that she is just overcompensating in her "normal life" because she is fully aware of it, which also leads to her treatment of Harry, which she is later implied to regret like Dudley. Moreover Dumbledore counted on this yearning for her connection to the wizarding world when he appointed her as Harry's caretaker and provider of the blood protection that would keep Harry safe in Privet Drive.

Meaningful Name: In the language of flowers, petunias symbolize anger and resentment.

Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher: Petunia seems to have the idea that her teenage son is just an oversized toddler and treats him accordingly. Dudley doesn't seem to mind, as it makes her easy to manipulate. He just has to act upset in front of her and she'll give her "Diddykins" whatever he wants.

Morality Chain: While by no means a decent person herself, she sometimes reins in Vernon's worst impulses.

Muggle Foster Parents: She and Vernon raised Harry since he was a baby, though EXTREMELY reluctantly on Petunia's part and entirely involuntarily of Vernon's.

Not So Above It All: While she looks down on wizards as an adult, as a child she actually wrote to Dumbledore and begged him to let her attend Hogwarts.

Not So Different: Despite her hatred for Snape, they actually have something in common. They both see Harry as a living symbol of something they could never have: (Snape sees Harry as a living reminder of his failed romance with Lily, Petunia sees Harry as a living reminder of the fact that she could never do magic). In addition, they tend to point out Harry's flaws while ignoring their "favorite's" flaws (Draco for Snape, Dudley for Petunia). In addition, both judge Harry not so much by his character, but rather by his heritage.

Parental Obliviousness: Petunia has a huge blind spot when it comes to Dudley's many flaws. Not entirely, though, as the first book has her desperately try to calm Dudley after sensing that he was about to throw a tantrum.

Parents as People: The reason she spoils Dudley so much is because of her childhood spent being The Un-Favourite next to her magical sister, so she desperately wanted her son to feel special and loved.

Parting Words Regret: This is apparently one of the reasons she hates Harry so much — he's a living reminder of how she never got to reconcile with Lily before her death.

Psychopathic Womanchild: It's implied that Petunia, at the end of the day, is still at heart a resentful teenager who never got what she wanted.

The Resenter: It's implied that Aunt Petunia's reactionary attitude toward the revelation that her sister Lily was a witch was partly out of envy, and this contributed to their falling out.

Stepford Smiler: Petunia is a fine example of the sort who initially seems to be her mask. Deathly Hallows suggests that her mask developed as the means to deal with her jealousy over her younger, "perfect" sister Lily getting magic and not herself.

Tragic Keepsake: She kept the baby blanket that infant Harry arrived in, because it was the last memento of her sister that she had left. Some time after she passes away, Dudley finds the blanket among her possessions and sends it back to Harry.

The Unfavorite: We don't actually know since we never get to see Lily's and her parents, but it is implied the reason she is so bitter and resentful towards magic and the Potters is that she felt left behind when her pretty, popular sister got a letter from Hogwarts and she didn't.

Women Are Wiser: More intelligent and reasonable than her husband, though not by very much. In Order of the Phoenix, she's the only Dursley who believes Harry's story about Voldemort's return and convinces Vernon not to throw Harry out the house. Granted, her being sent a Howler by Dumbledore played a factor.

Vernon and Petunia's beloved son and Harry's cousin. Initially, he's an overweight Spoiled Brat and the dim-witted leader of a Gang of Bullies who torment Harry. Of course, Vernon and Petunia turn a blind eye to the bullying and act as though Dudley were the perfect son. By the fifth book, Dudley has become an outright juvenile delinquent, but his parents remain oblivious.

After Harry saves him from a couple of Dementors, Dudley starts to change and ultimately he is the only member of the Dursley family to make a complete HeelFace Turn, a development cut from the movies (though a scene was filmed). Word of God says he and Harry are on friendly terms as adults.

Adaptation Dye-Job: Like his mother, he was blond in the books but dark-haired in the film.

Alliterative Name: The first letters of his first and last name start with "D". And the last three letters too end with "-ley".

Animal Motifs: Pigs. According to Hagrid, he looks and acts so much like one, a pig tail isn't much of a change.

Bad People Abuse Animals: He runs over a neighbor's dog with a miniature tank and throws his pet tortoise through the greenhouse roof.

Big Brother Bully: Although he's Harry's cousin rather than his brother, he picks on him endlessly and makes his life miserable. That is, until Harry becomes a proper wizard...

Big Eater: To the point that by the fourth book, he's the size of a young killer whale and wider than he is tall.

The Bully: Not just towards Harry, but also towards his classmates and the younger children in the neighborhood. The reason why Harry didn't have any friends at primary school was because the kids knew anyone who befriended him would become a target of Dudley's bullying as well.

Bullying a Dragon: He rubs Cedric Diggory's death in Harry's face, which enrages Harry to the point of him pulling out his wand and looking ready to use it. It doubles as Idiot Ball considering how well Dudley does whenever wizards are involved.

Butt-Monkey: Hagrid tried to turn him into a pig, but ended up just giving him a pig's tail. He ate some of the Weasley twins' joke candy and got an Overly Long Tongue. And then there are those dementors. Basically, whenever something magical shows up in the Muggle world, Dudley is about to get hurt.

Cain and Abel: The Cain to Harry's Abel of the adopted brother variety.

Character Development: He spent most of his youth making Harry's life miserable. After Harry saves him from Dementors in OOTP, he becomes a lot nicer. In fact, he was the only one in Deathly Hallows who told Harry goodbye.

Crocodile Tears: He uses these when trying to convince his parents to not include Harry in his birthday visit to the zoo.

Demoted to Extra: In the film series. Of all of the Dursleys, Dudley gets hit with this the worst, as his HeelFace Turn in Deathly Hallows, while filmed, was cut from the final product.

Fat Bastard: Bloats to the size of a young killer whale by Book 4 and never quite slims down. (He's "as vast as ever" in the next book. In his defense, however, a lot of the fat has been replaced with muscle due to "a year's hard dieting" and his newfound talent at boxing.)

Fat Idiot: Can't figure out 37 + 2 at the age of eleven. note Weirdly enough, he does know what 38 - 36 is, as he's instantly able to deduce that he would have two presents less than last year. Clearly he's better at subtracting than adding. Supposedly doesn't know who the Prime Minister is at age fifteen. Note his parents are actually proud of the latter; "as if a normal boy cares what's on the news." (In the books, he doubles as a male example of the Dumb Blonde.)

Formerly Fat: Dudley becomes a boxer in Book 5, losing weight and bulking up muscle instead.

Freudian Excuse: Played with. Dumbledore states at one point that his parents spoiling him rotten has damaged him just as much as their abuse of Harry, perhaps even moreso. While Harry has at least learned to become self-sufficient after being neglected by his aunt and uncle, Dudley, having been completely spoiled all his life, has no skills to survive in the real world.

Happily Married: As an adult, he marries a Muggle woman and has two children with her.

Harmless Villain: Much like Vernon. After Harry joins the wizarding world Dudley goes from being Harry's bullying tormentor and the reason he has no friends to a Butt-Monkey who comes off badly from almost every encounter he has with wizards. The villain aspect winds up getting averted after Harry saves Dudley from the dementors, prompting his HeelFace Turn.

The Hedonist: He really doesn't care about much other than eating, enjoying himself and picking on Harry.

HeelFace Turn: After reliving his worst moments in life because of a Dementor attack, he comes to realise just what a bully he was. Between that and Harry ending up saving him from the attack, he starts treating his cousin much nicer afterwards. By the time of the epilogue, he and Harry actually have a quite admirable relationship with each other.

Heel Realization: Word of God says that what the Dementors made Dudley see was how he looked in other people's eyes — a stupid spoiled slob. This is probably the only time in the series that someone being attacked by a Dementor has been a good thing.

I Owe You My Life: He becomes a whole lot less hostile towards Harry after he saves him from a Dementor attack, as he is quite aware that he likely wouldn't have survived the ordeal without Harry's help.

Kids Are Cruel: For much of his and Harry's life, he was a cruel boy to his cousin. He eventually grows out of it.

Large and in Charge: "Piers, Dennis, Malcolm, and Gordon were all big and stupid, but as Dudley was the biggest and stupidest of the lot, he was the leader."

Momma's Boy: His mother constantly spoils and dotes on him, and makes excuses for all his bad behaviors.

Scare 'em Straight: When the Dementors attacked him, he barely survived the experience. The dementors couldn't feed off of his worst memories, so they instead showed how horrible he had been to others and how much of a conceited, idiotic, enabled brat he was. With this revelation, he was in a catatonic state until he recovered. As soon as he did, he started turning his life around but nobody noticed until Dudley said goodbye to Harry. Since he believed his gestures were part of a prank. Now, their relationship is now far better than it was when they were kids.

Spanner in the Works: In The Cursed Child, he of all people plays a major hand in stopping the Big Bad. After his mother dies, he finds Harry's baby blanket among her possessions and sends it to him. Albus Potter, who is trapped in 1981, uses the blanket to send a message to his father to bring the cavalry.

Spoiled Brat: Dumbledore makes the interesting case that what the Dursleys have done to Dudley is actually worse than what they did to Harry. Since he was abused for the first ten years of his life, Harry rarely took anything he had for granted, nor did he expect the world to ever make any leeway for him, even with his status as the Boy-Who-Lived. Compare this to Dudley, who, being spoiled rotten and given everything he ever wanted, had his worst traits enabled and even encouraged, leaving him with barely anything resembling a moral compass and ill-equipped to deal with the real world.

Stout Strength: Even as a young, chubby kid, Dudley is surprisingly strong for a fat slob. After taking up boxing in the fifth book, he's apparently quite formidable.

Took a Level in Kindness: The only person in the series who a Dementor attack does some good for. It both gives him a Heel Realization, and he is quite grateful towards Harry afterwards for saving his life, and the two depart on good terms in Deathly Hallows. Word of God says that he and Harry stay in touch after the series.

Ungrateful Bastard: Subverted. A shaken Dudley accuses Harry of attacking him after the Dementor attack (which is justified on Dudley's end as he couldn't see the Dementors). The experience with the Dementor attack does, however, make him realise that he's been nothing but a cruel bully, and thus changes his ways, demonstrated for the first time when he and Harry depart on good terms before the Dursleys permanently depart from Privet Drive.

"You mustn't blame yourself about how this one turned out, Vernon. It's all to do with blood. Bad blood will out. [...] You see it all the time with dogs: if there's something wrong with the bitch, then there's something wrong with the pup."

Vernon's sister, who visits the rest of the family occasionally. Marge lives out in the country, where she is a professional bulldog breeder. She does not know about the magical world, but nevertheless follows the Dursley "party line" of considering Harry and his parents to be freaks. She is not shy about expressing this viewpoint, although she has apparently never met Harry's parents first hand.

Marge only appears in Prisoner of Azkaban, although she is mentioned a few times in the first book and once in the fifth book. It is during her visit in Azkaban that Harry gets so angry at her for insulting his parents that he causes her to blow up like a balloon.

Abhorrent Admirer: According to Pottermore, she is in love with her neighbour Coloner Fubster, who looks after her dogs when she is away. He understandably can't stand her.

Asshole Victim: She suffers what turns out to be a painful transformation caused by Harry's accidental magic. Given that she had spent the past few days badmouthing Harry's parents for literally no reason at all beyond her wanting to be a Jerkass, pretty much everyone considers it a suitable punishment.

Hate Sink: Has no problem talking smack about Harry's parents to the point that she makes Vernon look like a saint by comparison.

Harmful Healing: Cornelius Fudge tells Harry that Marge was "punctured" to get her back to normal...not exactly pleasant-sounding...

Honorary Uncle: Harry is forced to call her "Aunt Marge", even though Harry isn't related to her.

Hypocrite: She guzzles brandy as if it were going out of business, but has no problem in accusing Harry's parents of being alcoholics.

I'm Standing Right Here: Marge talks disparagingly about Harry and his parents as though he weren't there even though he's sitting at the same table. The other Dursleys sometimes do this too, but Marge is particularly bad about it. What makes her even worse is that fact that she openly insulted Harry's blood, with special emphasis on his mother, while said mother's own sister was in the room. She may have said this had nothing to do with Petunia, but it's still a low thing to do. In the film version, Petunia looks very distraught when Marge says this, juxtaposed by Dudley laughing and smiling.

Insistent Terminology: Harry is forced to call her "Aunt Marge" even though she isn't a blood relative of his.

A literal example; on one occasion, she casually mentions drowning one of the puppies she bred for being born too small.

She also has no problem casually talking smack about Harry's parents in his presence. This turns out to be a big mistake for her, however, as a pissed off Harry snaps and involuntarily causes her to inflate like a balloon and float away from the Dursleys'.

Laser-Guided Karma: Harry accidentally inflates her, which sounds very unpleasant, but given that she was insulting his dead parents to his face, it's impossible to feel any sympathy for her.

Magic Pants: Although they get stretched out, her clothes do a really good job of staying together when she's blown up.

Mugging the Monster: A verbal mugging at that. She regularly bashes Harry every other sentence, but she has no idea that he's a rather powerful wizard.

Non-Human Sidekick: She leaves most of her dogs in the care of a neighbor while she's away, but she always brings along Ripper, who is her favorite.

Put on a Bus: She never comes to visit again after she floats away from the Dursleys' thanks to Harry's magic accidentally going out of control.

Speak Ill of the Dead: She tends to spend the majority of her time at Privet Drive insulting Harry's late parents to his face.

Strong Family Resemblance: Basically, she's a female Vernon. In the book's description, she even has a mustache, "though not as bushy as his."

Others

Voldemort's father and first murder victim. He was a wealthy neighbor to the Gaunts, Tom disliked Morfin and Marvolo Gaunt for their poverty, insanity, and hostility. However, this and Tom already having a girlfriend didn't stop Merope Gaunt from becoming a Stalker with a Crush on him. When Marvolo and Morfin Gaunt were imprisoned in Azkaban for crimes against Muggles, Merope took that opportunity to brew a Love Potionand drug him with it, using the infatuation it induced in him for her to trick him into marrying and conceiving a child with her.

Once she was pregnant with his child, she stopped giving him the Love Potion and came clean about her being a witch, hoping that he had fallen in love with her for real and that he would stay for the child's sake if he hadn't. However, Tom horrified by what happened and perhaps in disbelief, returned to Little Hangleton, "talking of being 'hoodwinked' and 'taken in'... Unsurprisingly Tom Riddle avoided Merope from then on, never seeing her again; it's unclear if Riddle knew the baby was his. Merope went to an orphanage to die after giving birth to their child, who she named Tom after him before she died. Tom Riddle, Jr. was then raised in said orphanage, without the benefit of any form of parental love. Once Tom Riddle, Jr. finds out the details of his origins, he goes to the Riddle House in Little Hangleton and proceeds to kill his father and paternal grandparents.

Asshole Victim: The inhabitants of Little Hangleton certainly saw him as this - he was considered to be even worse than his "rich, snobbish and rude" parents in their eyes, and none of the locals were very sorry for them when they were found dead. Downplayed elsewhere in the books, where he is largely discussed as a victim who did nothing to deserve what happened to him, regardless of how elitist and unlikable he may have been in person.

Due to the Dead: Averted. Decades after his death, his son returns to Little Hangleton and takes over his family home as a base of operations solely because he needs some of his father's bones in a dark ritual, with Voldemort noting that his Muggle father was of use after all.

Jerkass Has a Point: Can you really blame him for running out on his wife and unborn child given that the only reason he married and conceived a child with her was because she brainwashed him with a Love Potion? Harry and Dumbledore don't, and agree that he had every reason to want to get the hell away from her.

The One That Got Away: He appears to be involved with Cecilia at the time of the Gaunts' arrest, and he lost her when Merope bewitched him into marrying her instead.

Poke the Poodle: He and his girlfriend laugh at Ogden when he runs into Tom's horse, but even Harry notes Ogden's attempt at Muggle get-up is ridiculous.

Poor Communication Kills: His Child by Rape, Tom Riddle Jr., seemed to believe that his father had abandoned his mother due to being a witch, when in fact Sr. had only been with her in the first place due to her slipping him love potion, so his reaction was less about her being a witch and more about what she had used her magic to do to him. Then again, Jr. probably would have still killed him just for the revelation of having half-Muggle parentage.

Rich Bitch: He was shown to be snobbish in his only speaking appearance, describing Morfin Gaunt and his father as "tramps" for their insanity and deranged actions towards others (which was admittedly true).

Stockholm Syndrome: Averted. He was trapped in a potion-induced relationship with Merope, which led to her becoming pregnant with their child. She stopped giving him love potions in hope that he would love her or at least stay with her because of their baby. Instead, he ran back home.

A pair of Muggle dentists and Hermione's parents. Throughout the series, they are almost entirely Out of Focus as Rowling believes they would be boring characters. Unlike the Dursleys, they are apparently accepting of Hermione being a witch.

Mr. and Mrs. Granger are best known for the instance in Deathly Hallows when Hermione gives them Fake Memories so that they will forget she exists and move to Australia, where they will be safe from Voldemort's reign of terror. This is only mentioned in dialogue in the book, but is actually portrayed onscreen in the movie version. Word of God states that Hermione returned her parents to normal after Voldemort was defeated.

Fake Memories: Hermione gave them these so Voldemort wouldn't try to find them and interrogate them about her whereabouts, as well as to keep them safe and away from the events of the seventh book. Word of God states that she later fixed their memories.

Good Parents: They're accepting when they find out Hermione is a witch.

Invisible Parents: Only briefly seen in a few scenes but little is really known about them.

O.C. Stand-in: As you can imagine, considering their status as blank slates.

Unnamed Parent: The only time their names are mentioned is when Hermione has altered their memories and says they are now Wendell and Monica Wilkins. Presumably, Wendell and Monica are not their real first names.

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The old gardener of the Riddle mansion, where Lord Voldemort's Muggle father and paternal grandparents lived. He becomes a prime suspect in their murder by Voldemort, but is cleared of all charges due to the police being unable to determine their cause of death. He is murdered by Voldemort himself years later. He is mostly notable for being one of the few point-of-view characters in the series other than Harry, though his point-of-view is limited to just one chapter.

Adaptational Wimp: Perhaps not strictly a wimp, but his role in the fourth film amounts to him investigating the intrusion in the Riddle house, eavesdropping on Voldemort's plans, and then being killed without a word spoken. Any mentions of his past, his status as a veteran, or even his backtalking the Dark Lord are omitted entirely, though he does still help Harry escape from Voldemort later on.

Backup Bluff: He tries this on Voldemort and Wormtail, claiming that his wife knows where he is and will call the police if he doesn't return. Unfortunately, the man he's trying to bluff is a Living Lie Detector.

Badass Normal: Possibly the most badass Muggle in the series. He mouths off to Voldemort! (Not that he knows it's Voldemort or how powerful he is.) When his "echo" appears later via temporary pseudo-resurrection he is surprisingly accepting of the fact he is dead and that wizards exist, and gives Harry support despite having only heard of him once before, just before he was killed.

Big Damn Heroes: During the fight between Harry and Voldemort in the graveyard, an echo of him comes back and helps Harry in order to avenge his own death.

Cassandra Truth: After he was accused of murdering the Riddles, he pointed out that he had seen young Tom Riddle (the true killer) near the mansion on the day of the murder but no one remembered him and no one other than the wizards would be able to identify him anyway.

Convicted by Public Opinion: The people of his town believe him to be the murderer regardless of there being no apparent cause of death and the police deciding not to charge him.

Crusty Caretaker: He remained at the Riddle House long after their murders, and developed a reputation for being grumpy.

Didn't See That Coming: A tough war veteran and caretaker, he was prepared for burglars and squatters but never expected that the infiltrators were actual sorcerers, making it a Hopeless Boss Fight for him.

Dying Alone: He has no wife, no loved ones and no friends in Little Hangleton.

Fallguy: He ends up taking the blame for Tom Riddle's actions, though Tom didn't even bother to frame him.

The Greatest Story Never Told: An especially cruel version. Frank Bryce will die without his name cleared in the Muggle world, and with no one knowing how brave and heroic he was in facing Voldemort and no one to mourn him after his death. Harry and Dumbledore do know he was innocent and that Voldemort killed him, but it's not mentioned that they cleared his name in the Muggle world.

Mugging the Monster: He thought Voldemort was a common vandal or criminal. He was in way over his head, though he didn't let it get to him.

Not Proven: He is cleared of the Riddles' murder because the police can't determine their cause of death (Avada Kedavra leaving no traces on the victim's body). True to the negative consequences of the verdict, though, he becomes a pariah because Little Hangleton believes him guilty.

Retired Badass: He fought in WWII, and still during his old age found it worth the risk to personally confront anyone who came squatting or trespassing.

Sacrificial Lamb: He is the first in-series on-page death that isn't a flashback, and he gets just enough characterization to make him very sympathetic and likable first.

Shell-Shocked Veteran: Implied to have been this, as he's described as having a great dislike of crowds and loud noises in the book.

Skeptic No Longer: His echo has accepted that Voldemort was indeed a wizard all along, and lends his support to Harry as best as he can.

Spy Speak: When hearing Voldemort and Pettigrew talk in the abandoned house, as he doesn't know a thing about the Wizarding world, he assumes that they're either spies or criminals planning something illegal and that words like "wizards", "witches", "Quidditch", or "Ministry of Magic" are code.

The Prime Minister of the Muggle Community of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is more or less the Muggle counterpart to the Minister for Magic, and is one of the few Muggles in the series who knows about the wizarding world without being related to a wizard, because the Minister for Magic is required by law to discuss any situation that might affect Muggle society with him. This does, however, mostly seem to translate to the Minister for Magic showing up and giving some minute details without bothering to explain further, and then telling the Prime Minister not to worry his pretty little head about it.

Notable, again, for being one of the few people in the series other than Harry to serve as viewpoint character — though like Frank Bryce, he's only viewpoint character for one chapter and then more or less vanishes from the story.

Adapted Out: His segment in Half Blood Prince isn't used for the film version.

Cassandra Truth: Avoids the trope because he knows that this is exactly what happens if he tried to tell anyone about his meetings with the Minister for Magic.

Condescending Compassion: On the receiving end of this from Cornelius Fudge, though definitely heavier on the "condescending" than the "compassion." He is understandably annoyed by it.

No Celebrities Were Harmed: He remains unnamed. If you go by the internal chronology of the books, it should be John Major, although the caricature of the sitting PM reads more like a spoof of Tony Blair. Worth noting is the fact that Rowling was writing the book a decade after the time in which it was set, and thus probably had Blair on her mind. The PM is also waiting for a phone call from an unnamed president, whose description as a "wretched man" brings George W. Bush to mind.

Reasonable Authority Figure: He seems like he would be one if given a chance — unfortunately, both Fudge and Scrimgeour make it very plain that even if he's supposed to be an authority figure and they're equal in theory, they consider him to be beneath them and not worth listening to.

Sympathy for the Devil: Though he really dislikes the dismissive and patronizing Cornelius Fudge, and has good reason to do so, he nevertheless finds himself feeling sorry for the man after Fudge reveals that he lost his job as Minister for Magic and is facing an inquiry over the death of Sirius Black (revealed to be innocent) on Ministry of Magic premises.

The Watson: He serves as one during his chapter in order to allow Fudge and Scrimgeour to recap the series so far.

The matron of the orphanage where Merope gives birth, Mrs. Cole is the one who helps Merope with her birth of her son, whom she names "Tom Marvolo Riddle" as Merope suggested. Dumbledore meets her when he goes there to inform Tom Riddle of his acceptance into Hogwarts, before meeting Riddle himself. Dumbledore eventually shows the memory of his visit to Harry in a Pensieve Flashback.

Accidental Misnaming: She introduces Dumbledore to the young Riddle first as "Dumberton" and then "Dunderbore". (She is by this point more than a little inebriated, having knocked back several gin shots while talking to Dumbledore in her office.)

The Alcoholic: She is one, as evidenced by her meeting with Dumbledore, where she consumes nearly 2/3 of the bottle of gin all by herself, and is surprisingly steady on her feet afterwards. It's not surprising, given the stress of running such an establishment  for over at least the last eleven years  and that Dumbledore's visit coincided with the threat of war with Nazi Germany.

Small Role, Big Impact: She appears only in one chapter, but her help in Merope giving birth to her son and subsequent years of raising him have a large effect in the story.

What Happened to the Mouse?: Her fate after Dumbledore's visit to the orphanage is not revealed. It's notable that, of all the characters that Harry sees in the memories Dumbledore shows him but never meets in person, she's the only one who's not explicitly stated to have died by the time the main story takes place.

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